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## Objective: To improve timely sepsis care by implementing the 2018 surviving sepsis campaign one-hour interventions. ## Design: Ten-month prospective quality improvement project. ## Setting: A 38-bed short stay unit within an 800-bed hospital in new york city. ## Participants: Patients admitted to the short stay unit who screened positive for sepsis. ## Intervention: A sepsis implementation tool was created from the 2018 surviving sepsis campaign guidelines. sepsis champions delivered education on sepsis recognition, treatment, and management, and the sepsis implementation tool to the healthcare staff. ## Process and outcome measures: Time to first lactate, blood cultures × 2, antibiotic administration, length of stay and mortality were tracked weekly for five months. ## Results: From may 6, 2019 to october 1, 2019, 32 patients were diagnosed with sepsis. initial lactate and blood cultures were completed on every patient within 1one-hour of sepsis diagnosis. administration of antibiotics within one-hour reached 100% after week four and was sustained. ## Conclusion: Use of a registered nurse-initiated sepsis implementation tool in a short stay unit led to the completion of blood c

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Author

Lauren Gripp; Melanie Raffoul; Kerry A. Milner

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)